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As soon as my RFID passport arrived, it went into the microwave for a few seconds. No smoke, no discoloration - just a slightly raised outline. And no more RFI
by fractallyte 11y ago
As soon as my RFID passport arrived, it went into the microwave for a few seconds. No smoke, no discoloration - just a slightly raised outline.
And no more RFID.
- e12e 11y agoBut is it then, technically, still a valid passport?
- fractallyte 11y agoValid enough for human validation! (Although, I think it's technically illegal to deface a passport. But, at the same time, it's not technically 'defaced'...) Edit: As a frequent (if reluctant) traveler, I've yet to encounter a necessity for RFID at passport control. (I simply avoid that particular queue.) I've been stopped twice for not being obedient: once because I refused to step into a mm-wave scanner (after the controller refused to send me back through the metal detector after I removed my belt...), and another time for not staring into the hypnotic blinkenlights that were swirling around the cameras above everyone's heads in the queuing area.
- graedus 11y agoCan you elaborate on the 'hypnotic' lights? I've never seen or heard of this.
- fractallyte 11y agoI think it was UK Gatwick Airport, on the way to passport control. The passengers were shepherded into lines, and spaced at intervals above each line were ceiling-mounted cameras. Bright LEDs around the camera lens were flashing in rotational patterns - designed to instinctively draw attention, and hence make facial recognition easier.
- ethbro 11y agoWere there four lights? Or five?
- fractallyte 11y agoI really can't recall. I wasn't looking up!
- caskance 11y agoNo, but the kind of person who writes things like that never leaves his basement anyway, so he doesn't need a valid passport.